One side of the armed conflicts is composed mainly of the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed. The Janjaweed are a Sudanese militia group recruited mostly from the Afro-Arab Abbala tribes of the northern Rizeigat region in Sudan.
Able-bodied Muslims are required to visit Mecca, Islam's holiest city, at least once in their lifetime.
It is likely that Neptune's Great Dark Spot is a hole in the methane cloud deck.
An eventful day in the life of a neurosurgeon is shown in his next work, Saturday.
The tarantula was the trickster character.  It spun a black cord.  Then it attached the cord to the ball, quickly crawled away and pulled on the ball with all its strength.